Gisèle Pelicot ‘honoured’ to wear scarf from Australian women’s group in court

Scarf made by First Nations women showed Pelicot that others around the world feel the same way', says lawyer

Gisele Pelicot, the French woman who has become a feminist hero after insisting that the rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men should be held in public, has said she was honoured to wear a scarf to court each day which was sent to her by an Australian organisation working to raise awareness of sexual assaults on older women.

I'm very honoured to wear it," Gisele Pelicot said on leaving the courthouse in Avignon, southern France. In court on Wednesday, Gisele Pelicot reached for the scarf and clutched it to her during testimony by an accused man who denied raping her despite video evidence.